Global InformationBJW Ante Up information
| Ante Up | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Promotional poster featuring various BJW and CZW wrestlers | |||
| Promotion | Big Japan Pro Wrestling | ||
| Date | December 2, 2001 | ||
| City | Yokohama, Japan | ||
| Venue | Yokohama Arena | ||
| Attendance | 11,923[1] | ||
| Tagline(s) | BJW vs CZW | ||
| Event chronology | |||
| |||
Ante Up was a professional wrestling supercard event produced by Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW). The event took place on December 2, 2001, at the Yokohama Arena in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. The event was themed around BJW's interpromotional rivalry with American promotion Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW).
In the main event match, Daisuke Sekimoto and Men's Teioh defeated Kintaro Kanemura and Ryuji Yamakawa to retain their BJW Tag Team Championship and win Kanemura and Yamakawa's WEW Hardcore Tag Team Championship. In the semi-main event match, CZW's Zandig defeated Mitsuhiro Matsunaga in an exploding glass, light tubes and thumbtacks death match to win the BJW Deathmatch Heavyweight Championship; in other prominent matches, Ruckus defeated The Winger and Trent Acid in a three-way match to win the vacant BJW Junior Heavyweight and CZW World Junior Heavyweight Championships, Badboy Hido defeated Shadow WX in a barbed wire boards death match, and Justice Pain defeated Nick Gage to retain the CZW World Heavyweight Championship.
The event also notably featured the BJW debuts of Mil Máscaras and Terry Funk.
- ^ "BJW Ante Up 2001". Cagematch.net. Retrieved April 9, 2023.